What We've Been Working On
2012
What We’ve Been Working On Last year, we translated all of the remaining texts for both Avalokiteshvara and Krodhikali (Tröma Nagmo, “Black Wrathful Lady,” a form of Vajrayogini) terma cycles. We have reviewed over a hundred hours of our meetings, revising and annotating our work, as well as preparing additional questions and translations of several [more...]
2011
What We’ve Been Working On This coming year will be the 25th anniversary of the Vidyadhara Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche’s parinirvana. Commemorations of this will include a variety of activities related to our work. Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche plans to offer the Sadhana of Mahamudra abhisheka, which he has not conferred for several years. We plan to [more...]
2010
What We’ve Been Working On Download the 2010 newsletter Last November (2009), many sangha members in Halifax received the Wrathful Gesar empowerment from His Eminence Namkha Drimed Rinpoche. In addition to the short daily practice that we made available at that time, this year we completed draft translations of over 350 Tibetan pages from [more...]
2009
What We’ve Been Working On Download the 2009 newsletter here. For much of this year we have been focused on preparing a number of Gesar liturgies and sadhanas for the upcoming Wrathful Gesar abhisheka and teachings in November with Namkha Drimed Rinpoche in Halifax. We reviewed our translations via Skype video conference with Surmang Khenpo, [more...]
2008
What We’ve Been Working On Download the 2008 newsletter here. Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche returned to Halifax during Surmang Khenpo’s visit with us, and we had an excellent meeting together (at which Khandro Tseyang served some delicious Tibetan delicacies, as an early Losar for Surmang Khenpo). We were able to continue our discussions on several [more...]
2007
What We’ve Been Working On Newsletter 2007 Last fall (2006), we were very happy to welcome Surmang Khenpo from Surmang back to Halifax. He arrived in late November to have a medical procedure done, which was successful, though it took much longer than anyone expected. Khenpo stayed with us for two months and, while waiting [more...]
2006
What We’ve Been Working On Newsletter 2006 Surmang Khenpo from Surmang returned to Halifax in January for an extended three-week visit, working with us primarily on texts from the Vidyadhara’s collected writings from Tibet (sungbum). Khenpo’s facility with English, combined with his deep knowledge of dharma and familiarity with the traditions of Surmang, provide us [more...]
2005
What We’ve Been Working On In last fall’s newsletter (2004), we mentioned our need for more Tibetan teachers to work with in Halifax. This last year has been very fruitful in that regard. We’ve had a wealth of visiting teachers, including several new collaborators. At the beginning of 2005, we met with Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche [more...]